International
Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry®

Honoring Our
Enslaved Ancestors

We honor our enslaved
ancestors for:

their strength and survival; their
suffering and sacrifice;

their faith and forgiveness; their
endurance and indomitable spirit;

their courage
and perseverance; and their contributions in the building of our nations.

Welcome to the ISDSA Web Site.Anyone can submit information on slave
ancestry.Descendants of slaves and
descendants of slaveholders can submit names and other information about former
slaves.Anyone who has documents with
slave names can submit that information to ISDSA.

The
Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry are proud of their enslaved ancestors, not
ashamed; want to remember the past, not erase it; want to celebrate their
heritage, not mourn it; and want to promote dialogue about this chapter in
world history for the purpose of documenting and preserving slave genealogy for
future generations.

PURPOSE

The
purpose of the ISDSA is to perpetuate the memory of our slave ancestors in
America and around the world.

GOALS

To
honor and celebrate our enslaved ancestors

To
promote an interest in slave genealogy and family history

To
encourage the documentation, publication, and preservation of slave genealogy
and historical information

To
recognize people who research, document, publish and preserve their slave
ancestry

OBJECTIVES

To
publish slave genealogy and historical information

To
house the ISDSA archival collection of print and nonprint
media relating to slavery in the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection at the
Carter G. Woodson Library in Chicago, Illinois